Curriculum Vitae

Last updated August 2026

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My research examines how management accounting and control systems shape behavior in organizations. Specifically, I study incentives and performance information, including what these instruments signal to employees. More recent projects deal with algorithmic decision tools and digital monitoring in management control as well as with the internal reporting of misconduct. To identify causal effects, I mainly run field experiments inside firms, often using data from their management accounting and personnel systems, and complement them with laboratory and online experiments and with survey and archival data. Much of this work concerns employee attendance and sickness absence, a topic of ongoing public policy debate.

Academic appointments

2024 – present Associate Professor of Managerial Accounting (with tenure)Frankfurt School of Finance & Management
2020 – 2023 Assistant Professor of Controlling / Managerial AccountingFrankfurt School of Finance & Management
2015 – 2020 Research Associate, Chair of Personnel Economics and HRMUniversity of Cologne
2015 – 2019 Research AssociateDFG Research Unit „Design and Behavior – Economic Engineering of Firms and Markets“
2019 External Lecturer of Managerial AccountingFrankfurt School of Finance & Management

Education

2020 Ph.D., University of CologneSupervisors: Dirk Sliwka (first), Matthias Heinz (second)
2015 M.Sc. Economics, University of CologneDean's Award for outstanding academic achievements
2012 Study Abroad, Barcelona Graduate School of EconomicsTuition waiver
2012 B.Sc. Economics, University of CologneDean's Award for outstanding academic achievements
2011 Study Abroad, Trinity College DublinSocrates / Erasmus scholarship

Academic visits

2019 Frankfurt School of Finance & Managementinvited by Matthias D. Mahlendorf
2017 University of Chicagoinvited by Steven D. Levitt

Teaching

Selected lectures and seminars. Supervision of more than 40 bachelor and 20 master theses.

2022, 2024 Field ExperimentsPhD
2019 – 2025 Managerial AccountingUndergraduate, module coordinator
2020 – 2025 Internes RechnungswesenUndergraduate, module coordinator
2023, 2024 Topic and Data Generation in Managerial AccountingUndergraduate seminar
2016 – 2020 Business Projects (various topics)Graduate seminar
2015, 2016 Empirical Evaluation of Management PracticesGraduate seminar and tutorial

Selected talks

Presentations at seminars and conferences, most recent first.

2026 Tilburg University (scheduled)
2025 Harvard Business School, University of Amsterdam, University of Cologne
2024 University of Tübingen, Journal of Accounting Research Registered Report Conference
2023 Erasmus Accounting Workshop (plenary speaker), 19th Annual Conference for Management Accounting Research, Ulm University
2022 European Accounting Association Annual Congress (Bergen), Maastricht University
2021 London School of Economics, Journal of Accounting Research Second Registered Reports Conference, LMU Munich
2017 University of Chicago, Colloquium on Personnel Economics (Zurich), IMEBESS (Barcelona)

Awards, grants, and rankings

2026 Granted access to 50,000 km² of Planet satellite imagery (worth approx. $100,000)
2025 Ranked 2nd among German-speaking business researchers under 40, based on A+ publications (Forschungsmonitor.de)
2020 – 2025 ECONtribute Research Grants, six awards totalling approx. €110,000
2016 C-SEB Workshop Grant, „Structural Estimation“ (€2,000)
2016 Center for Social and Economic Behavior (C-SEB) Junior Start-Up Research Grant (€4,000)

Editorial roles

Editorial Board European Accounting Review, since 2026
Associate Editor Accounting Open, since 2025
Editorial Board Management Accounting Research, since 2025

Further service

Ad hoc referee Economic Inquiry, European Accounting Review, Human Resources Management and Services, International Review of Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Journal of Autonomous Intelligence, Journal of Economics & Management Strategy, Management Accounting Research, Management Science, The Accounting Review, The Scandinavian Journal of Economics
Conference referee and organization Society for Institutional and Organizational Economics Conference · Management Accounting Midyear Meeting · Emerging Scholars in Accounting (2022, 2023) · Workshop on Structural Estimation with Charles Bellemare (2016)